Fuel gel

We must get some decent winter diesel up here in the north. Very rarely do we add any antigel to anything unless it was trucked up from the south or because it sat with summer fuel until winter was in full effect.

 

You do.

I cannot recall touching the fuel even in old town at -50 SD one night in a howler. It did take a hour to finish fueling, only because we fought frostbite... Then again wife and I would burn up that 300 plus gallons usable in 30 hours or less do it again tomorrow 1500 miles down the road. The fuel don't get a chance to sit and gel.

 

I've run during the winter from Brownsville, TX, to Yellowknife, NT, and spent a lot of winters in the far north and never really used any additive consistently and never gelled up. Lucky? Probably... to a degree. The one practise I did adhere to when running down to the southern U.S. and back during winter was to typically run my tanks down on the way south and then run partial tanks fuelling every day heading north until I got to Montana, or back to Canada. Then I would fill. More expensive fuel-wise... but then I never gelled up either.

Similar thing when I was running farther north, except I would always run on the top half of my tanks in the winter.

 

In Canada they add the stuff right at the refinery. You never have to add it in Canada. That is why it will get more and more clear as it gets colder as opposed to the yellow stuff in warmer months.

 

This looks like a pretty good deal on diesel 911.
12 bottles for $66.00
Power Service Diesel 911 | 12/32 Ounce Case

 

It is not always fuel jelling that causes problems, water from condensation gets in fuel, then ice cristals plug you filter.
Be safe, use a additive, one freeze up or jelled fuel tow and thaw will pay for a lot of additive.

 

It's supposed to gel...





Wrong fuel?

 

You're fuel of it.